Introduction to the special issue on theory development in operations management

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 354-356

  Schroeder, Roger G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical; Operations; Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 48249103158     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3401/poms.1080.0026     Document Type: Article

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